Both of the new Macs that Apple shipped currently advance with the ultimate chronicle of OS X: 10.7 Lion. The refurbish brings many new features, as you'd design of a new working system, but there are a few essential changes both to the user experience itself, and the the way Apple has selected to broach the the new OS. One - the insufficient of any earthy setup media - is both available and annoying. The other - taking advantage of UI metaphors from the touch-only iOS - is expected to allure to new users and anxious aged ones.
Download Only
The really initial thing that is unfit to disregard is that Lion usually exists in the ether. There are not, nor will there be, earthy media carrying the installer. Instead, you have to possibly purchase a new Mac with Lion pre-installed, or download the 3.5GB installer from the Mac App Store.
There are ways to make this record in to bootable USB sticks and DVDs, but that's is to nerds and sysadmins who wish to setup on multi-part machines. For the periodic customer, the installer hoop is dead.
And what happens if your P.C. goes belly-up? Is there a liberation hoop in the box? Nope. Apple gets around this by partitioning the foot expostulate and putting a application called Lion Recovery onto it. When you have trouble, press Command-R when you beginning up and you'll be booted in to liberation mode. From there you can correct the disk, reinstall Lion or revive from a Time Machine backup.
I know what you're thinking. What if the expostulate is entirely dead? How do we rescue my Mac then? Well, the headlines is great and bad. The great is that, even if you container in a brand-new, unclothed hard drive, the Mac will foot in to "Internet Recovery" mode. This connects to Apple's servers and grabs a duplicate of Lion Recovery, and you go from there.
The bad headlines is that you need an Internet connection to do it, and we all know that hard drives always flop at the many untimely moment. The worse headlines is that, even if you have an Internet connection, it's going to take a long time to download that 3.5GB installer file.
It Looks Like iOS
The other large change is the look of the OS. Apple patrician it's foreword of Lion "Back to the Mac," signaling that many new discoveries done in iOS are being folded back in to the Mac mix. Therefore you'll find Launchpad, that turns even the hulk 27-inch shade of the iMac in to an icon-infested home screen. Just similar to on your iPhone, usually way harder to use.
You moreover obtain full-screen mode, permitting you to combine on one app at a time, once again similar to iOS. Windows users will giggle at this "new" underline - Microsoft's OS defaults to full-screen windows, but it is great for particular kinds of app - print and video editors for example. Our own Brian X Chen praises it in his Lion examination , but I'm not sure how utilitarian it will be for a blogger's simultaneous, multi-window needs.
There are lots of other tweaks, from Resume (which lets an app collect up where it left off final time you stop work it) to Autosave, that does what you'd expect. For more details, examine out Brian's examination . And if you're not sure if your preferred apps will be matching with Lion, examine out this rsther than handy wiki from Roaring Apps to find out.
Lion is available right away in the Mac App store for $30.
Lion Features [Apple]
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